Advertising means.



Patented Aug. 8, i899.

A. L. E. CASPAH.

ADVERTISING MEANS.

(Application led Oct. 9, 1897.|

lnver'ur: of. 8.544754 wif/1eme s UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED LOUISv EDOUARD GASPAR, OF LA GARENNEACOL'OMBES, FRANCE.

ADVERTISING MEANS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,486, dated August 8, 1899.

Application filed October 9, 1897. Serial No. 654,679. (No model.)

To aZZ wir/0m, t may concern:

Be it known that LALFRED Louis EDOUARD GASPAR, gentleman,of La Garenne-Colombes, (Department de la Seine,) in the Republic of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Means, (patented in Great Britain, No. 20,382, dated July 23, 1898, and in France,-for fifteen years, dated June 1S, 1897;) and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, refe-rence being made to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to means for advertising applied to toilet-paws, books, or the like, but which will be applied to independent sheets of paper placed alternately with the sheets of toilet-paper and which are so perforated as to render the use of such special paper impossible for toilet purposes.

Among the advantages of perforating the advertising strip or sheet as described are that thereby the use of paper carrying printing-ink fortoilet purposes is avoided and only plain paper used for that purpose, as is very desirable. Further, the advertising-sheets (in the case of a roll) not being subject to use will naturally, at least a part of the time, remain attached to the strip and exposed while several toilet-sheets are removed,'thereby increasing the value of the advertisements. Sometimes the ladvertising-sheets will be torn ed with the toilet-sheets, in which case the advertisement would not remain exposed, as will be evident.

The toilet-paper and the perforated advertising-paper are of any color and may be arranged together in a roll on the same spindle or like the leaves of a book-that is to say, one above the other, so that the leaves of perforated advertising-paperare placed alternately with the sheets of toilet-paper.

In the accompanying drawings, in which I have shown toilet-paper arranged in a roll and also arranged in a manner similar to the leaves of a book, Figure 1 is a front view of a roll of toilet-paper and of perforated advertising-paper. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 1 2, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a book made up of the two kinds of paper. Fig. Il is a section on the line 3 4, Fig. 8.

By referring to Figs. 1 and 2 it will be seen that the roll of toilet advertising-paper is made up by rolling together on the same spindle a strip of paper b, forming a succession of sheets of toilet-paper only, and a strip of paper c, placed underneath the first-named strip and having perforations o distributed in the `ad vertising part thereof` between the predetermined lines (perforated or not) at which the sheets are designed to be torn olf from time to time and which prevent the use of this paper for toilet purposes. These rolls of paper and the spindle may be mounted upon a small vertical board d, which is fixed to the wall. In this case the spindle a will preferably be one of the sides of a rectangle, of which the opposite side a', serving as a pivot, will be held in a longitudinal groove provided for that purpose in I[he rear face of thesaid board. A flat spring r, attached at one end to the board, exerts constant pressure upon the said roll, so as to prevent the strips b and c from being rolled off too quickly.

Figs. 3 and 4 show a book made up of sheets of toilet and of advertising paper. On a small board or cardboard f are placed alternately one above the other the sheets of toilet-paper g and of perforated advertising-paper 7L. A strip of cardboard f is placed on the top of the pile of papers thus formed and at one end of the same, and the said strip f is secured to board f either by nails, which pass through the ends of papers g and h, or in any other suitable manner, but so as to hold the said ends irmly pressed between the said strip of cardboard f and the board f, so that the papers g and 7L maybe successively torn oif without carrying with them the said ends.

Both in the case of the roll form and book ywith any and every system of distributer of toilet-paper whether the system be automatic or not.

Having thus described my invention, what IOO Y I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters j tions rendering 'the advertising-,paper unfit Patent, lis-V 1. The combination with a series of sheets of toilet-paper, and alternating therewith paper containing advertisements, the latter paper being adapted to be torn away on predetermined lines; and having holes yo in the bodies of the advertising-sheets, whereby removal of sheets of toilet-paper exposes the containing the advertisements being perfof perforated advertising-sheets which are m'ade unsuitable for toilet-use by the said holes-0, l being thereby renderednon-.nsable for toilet as set forth.

2. The combination with a suitable spindle, i

of a strip of toilet-paper adapted 'to be torn-L off in suitable lengths or sheets, and a strip of advertisingwpaper alternating with the toin let-paper and adapted'to be torn off in sheets; f said `advertising-paper having perforations o in the bodies ofthe sheets between the lines where thesheets are torn 0E, said perforafor toilet use.

3. The combination with a suitable spindle, of a strip of toilet-paper and va strip of paper containing advertisements vboth Woundjtogether upon y'saidspindle and provided :with

lines of perforations, whereby said strips are l divided into detachable leaves, the leaves rated between their perforated dividinglines purposes, substantially 'as set forth.

In v,witness whereof I have hereunto set lny hand in presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED LOUIS vEDQUARI) GASPAR. Witnesses:

GEORGES LAURENTZ, EUGENE WATTIER. 

